A Gala Event; Commemorating Brown v Board of Education at Fifty 1954-2004
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Howard University, and NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., 2004. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. 64 pages. Illustrations. Format is 8.5 inches by 11 inches. This is the program from a gala "Honoring the Heroes of the Landmark Decision". Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, was a landmark case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896. The Court's unanimous decision stated that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." De jure racial segregation was ruled a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. Howard University is a federally chartered, historically black university in Washington, D.C. It is categorized by the Carnegie Foundation as a research university with higher research activity and is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. Howard offers more than 120 areas leading to undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees. More